DECK THE HOLIDAY'S

    The  Calle Ocho Festival or "El Festival de la Calle Ocho",  is a one day  "rumba"- fiesta-that culminates the Miami Carnival. This festival takes place in March each year between 27th avenue and 4th avenue, along Southwest 8th street, that is 23 blocks along "Calle Ocho" in "Little Havana" with activities for everybody.      Even thought this festival is not counted amongst the official Hispanic holidays, more than 1 million people attend this block party to participate, and to see top Hispanic artists perform at every street intersection at the designated stages.     You can hear  salsa, reggeaton, merengue, bachata, balada, hip hop  and more. Personalities like  El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Cellia Cruz, Oscar D'Leon, El Grupo Niche  and many more have performed at the festival     "El Festival de la Calle Ocho",  is one incredible party that in 1998 was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records for ha

Cake doughnuts are fried, not baked, at your local doughnut shop. But this recipe bakes up just as delicious, and cleanup is far easier, not to mention a bit less guilt-inducing. This batter also bakes up beautifully in an electric doughnut maker. Note:  To get the proper doughnut shape when baking cake doughnuts, you do need a doughnut pan with a rounded bottom to each cup and a post through the middle. Baking them on a flat baking sheet will result in flat-bottomed half-doughnuts. If you don't have a doughnut pan, you can make the same batter and bake it in a muffin tin for doughnut-flavored muffins. The batter also works great with a mini-muffin pan for bite-size treats. ingredients 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon (120 grams) all-purpose flour 1/4 cup (30 grams) whole wheat pastry flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/3 cup (75 grams) superfine sugar 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons (1 ounce) unsalted butter or vegetable

    Have you ever wondered where some of our weird Christmas traditions come from? I mean, we tell our kids that a fat man is coming into our house at night; we bring in trees in to shed all over the carpet; and we kiss under parasitic plants – all in the holiday spirit. How the hell are these even related to Jesus, whose birthday we’re supposed to be celebrating?    Well, sit back, pull in some eggnog and gingerbread, and take a ride on the these origins of our favorite Christmas pastimes. 10 Christmas    Christmas, as most of us know, is the Christian tradition honoring the birth of Christ – though it is not celebrated solely as such in our modern society. To us, Christmas represents a time of joy, gift-giving, and family. Christmas as we know it evolved out of the Roman tradition of Saturnalia, a festival honoring their god of agriculture, Saturn, on the winter solstice.    Due to the already-rampant celebration taking place on the date and the revering